Millions of New Year's resolutions will be made over the next 24 hours. Promises to get in shape. To get a better job. To get better, in general.

Even the Yankees might make a few promises going into 2014. But, as we know, not even the most inspired New Year's resolutions go fulfilled.

Here are a few the Hal Steinbrenner and Co. could make, and the chances that they could happen.

Rein in spending: Unlikely

Yankees officials have repeatedly said they want to keep their 2014 payroll under the $189-million luxury cap threshold. They were saying that before signings Brian McCann, Carlos Beltran and Jacoby Ellsbury each to big-money deals. And they'll say it until Masahiro Tanaka picks a team, and until Alex Rodriguez finds out whether he'll be suspended for the whole season.

But each time they've made that statement, they've been careful to call staying under the cap a goal, and not a mandate, leaving themselves wiggle room to spend big if they see fit. Though it's possible Rodriguez's salary gets wiped off the 2014 books, they Yankees might give a lot of what Rodriguez might have gotten to Tanaka to secure him for a several years. And that would likely make staying under $189 million a pipe dream.

Make the playoffs: Possible

A retooled lineup and a pitching staff that could be improved with Tanaka, and if a couple internal arms step up — Michael Pineda? Manny Banuelos? — could add a few wins to the Yankees' total of 85 in 2013. That said, the bullpen still might need a little bit of help. David Robertson, while stellar as a set-up man, is unproven as a closer, and Mariano Rivera has said he's not coming back. And though Matt Thornton will replace Boone Logan as the Yankees' lefty out of the pen, the team hopes a few others will step up, making it well-rounded enough to battle Boston and Tampa Bay.

Robertson has even said he believes he has the stuff to take over for Rivera, and there's little reason to doubt him after his strong 2013. But even if he saves 40 games and pitches to another sub-2 ERA, he won't be Mo. Nobody will.

Stay healthier than in 2013: Likely

Hard to remember the last time a team got as unlucky with injuries, from Derek Jeter's ankle and legs to Mark Teixeira's wrist to Rodriguez's hip to Curtis Granderson's fractured forearm and broken pinkie finger to Kevin Youkilis' back to we're out of breath. The team put a player on the disabled list 29 times in 2013. That number must decrease next year.